Tour de France iCal

onMonday, 26 June 2017

Here’s a downloadable calendar of the Tour de France for your electronic diary or phone with brief details of each stage.

The format proves very popular, perhaps there’s a big demand to schedule work and social life around the crucial days? With this in mind each stage has a star rating, a subjective take on the stage’s importance to the race, whether drama or likely importance for the overall classification.

New for 2017 all stages will be broadcast live from start to finish so more than ever it will pay to tune on for the big days and drop out for the duller ones. All stages are scheduled to finish around 5.00pm CET with the exception of the opening stage and the last one.

Save the ics / iCal / iCalendar file and you can import it into your electronic diary. One or two clicks and it’s on your iPhone / Outlook etc. The default settings have alerts switched off but check your device to avoid annoyance.

Alternatively if you use Google then see calendar below and the +Google Calendar link on the bottom-right. Note this method can work with Android phones when the iCal file might not.

If you want more help on how to make use of this, see the inrng.com/calendar page which has the calendar for all the main men’s and women’s pro races in 2017 and a fuller explanation of how to put a calendar into Outlook, an iPhone, your diary etc.

I’m fascinated how prevalent the view is that someone can magically transform their form in 3 weeks. 21 days to significantly improve multiple facets of performance? It’s near impossible to entertain the notion that a transformation of that magnitude is possible without doping. Yet many people seem to take it as an article of faith that it’s not only possible but likely in the modern era.

If Froome does consistently outclimb the likes of Porte, Bardet, Aru and Quintana and/or replicate any of his impressive feats from last year (escaping in the crosswinds, imperious time-trialling, close behind the puncheurs on explosive steep finishes) – it will certainly raise my eyebrows.

As anyone who’s ever trained to an elite level will tell you, it’s extremely difficult to find that absolute peak of form and it’s only there briefly when you do find it. I’m far from a Sky apologist, but to me the fact that there is an obvious process of building form towards and peaking for one specific brief period is a stronger indication of a lack of doping rather than its presence.

I probably over-egged the point about doping. I don’t doubt the science behind peaking or achieving a ‘super-peak’. I just struggle with the magnitude of the change. Not quite zero to hero, but not all that far off either.

You’re absolutely right about Nibali. He was dropped consistently in the Dauphine but rode so strongly at the TdF that I have my doubts Froome or Contador could have overhauled him without their crashes.

I’m one of the few Froomey opponents here ; ) but hope Froome for the sake of clean sport loses this time. Twice TUE (two TDF victories as a result), hypocrisy of him and Brailsford, their two faced policies… 4th victory like that will be a blow for the sport – plus UKAD investigation still rolling. Hope fresh wind will blow: 1. PORTE 2. NAIRO 3. CONTADOR

You have this wrong Sebas. You’ve misunderstood the what the how the why of TUE’s. It’s doubtful Team Sky and Froome will give you your wish of Postal/Armstrong MKII. Let’s just deal with facts though till we know different here? Not informed or helpful these sorts of comments.

I hope Porte or Nairo does it also though.

Although I think you’re on cloud cuckoo land thinking Contador will podium. Nada chance.

Relating Valverde’s proven doping to the Movistar structure = knowing nothing at all about it. Great confusion about Indurain, too (the reasons to believe he was doping were outside the team!!! You can’t assume he was doping, perhaps with reasonable elements to think so, and then link that to the team…).
Not disagreeing about the message you try to convey, not at all, but let’s avoid spreading fake infos

Thanks for the great calendar. One suggestion would be to add a brief stage type to the event info (“sprint”, “mountain-top finish”, “mountain descent”, etc.) It is good to see the TT days on the event info.